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Jesse Cameron Alick

JESSE CAMERON ALICK

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jesse Cameron Alick is a poet, playwright, producer and Zen Master. Jesse is Artistic Associate at the Public Theater, AssistANT to the playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, freelance producer and playwright. Jesse is also a freelance journalist and essayist. Jesse studied writing with playwright Adrienne Kennedy and taught a Theater course at Lewis and Clark College. Jesse has had essays, articles and poetry published by High Contrast Review, XY, A&U, POZ, the Errorist, Courier Life, Smokin Word Publications and Random House. He has been commissioned to write work for Streetlight Productions, Freedom Train Productions, Working Mans Clothes and Subjective Films. His work has been heard at locations that include Cherry Lane Theater (Downtown Urban Theater Festival), Asian American Writers Workshop (co-produced by New York Theater Workshop), Collective Unconscious, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Museum of the City of New York (produced by Harlem Arts Alliance), CSV, Blue Heron, Bowery Poetry Club, Ensemble Studio Theater, the Ohio Theater, Dixon Place, 78th street Theater lab, the Red Room, the Crystal Theater (MT), the Columbus Performing Arts Center (OH), the Poetry Cafe (UK) and Hip Heaven (UK). Jesses play TURNCOATS was workshopped at the Old Vic Theatre in London as part of their young artist exchange program and his play COME BACK TO ME was performed in the Shakespeare in Paradise festival in the Bahamas. Jesse was also a founding member and Artistic Director for Subjective Theatre Company.

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         Age Of Grace, The         Ardor Doody         Come Back To Me         Jump Jim Crow: How To Produce Your Own Minstrel Show         No Poem No Song         Party Discipline         Scorpion And the Fox, The         Sleep Awake         thus have I heard: tales of the last bodhisattva         Turncoats         When Half the Sphere Is Visible

Age Of Grace, The

Synopsis:
In 1977 anna and aaron meet and form a bond so beautiful, even the angels in heaven are filled with envy. In the present, abe has a mental breakdown and upon returning to the shores of sanity, is filled with mistrust of his religion, his place in history, and even his own sexuality. Determined to find the loophole that connects the events in the present with the past, abe goes on a journey to find a lost love, though God himself may stand in the way. Mixing the Old Testament up with a splash of reincarnation, the age of Grace shows the connection between past and present, while exploring the enduring nature of unconditional love
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Subjective Theater Company

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Play/Drama

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Ardor Doody

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In a cold prison cell, in an anonymous totalitarian country, two political prisoners debate guilt vs. innocence, happiness vs. productivity, honesty vs. betrayal, art vs. duty-all while wearing big clown shoes and rubber noses. ardor Doody is a satirical comedy about two circus clowns and one mime fighting the government the only way they know how-but which one will have the last laugh?
- dctheatre.com

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written by Jesse Cameron Alick And Lucile Scott

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Subjective Theatre Company

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Come Back To Me

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Shakespeare in Paradise Festival in the Bahamas    -

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Jump Jim Crow: How To Produce Your Own Minstrel Show

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This is from the press release: "Jump Jim Crow is a 'musical instructional' on HOW to produce a minstrel show and WHY you should produce a minstrel show! It's funny, political, smart and very racially charged! In Jump Jim Crow: How to Produce Your Own Minstrel Show we invite the audience to join us for a marvelous, full-length musical instructional about the art of the minstrel show! Replete with comedy and pathos, mingled with tears and jokes and songs from antebellum America, reality television, and original instructionals such as, 'How to Identify the common Negro Coon', and that ever popular game show 'Tom, Coon, Mulatto, Mammy or Buck!?', Jump Jim Crow: How to Produce Your Own Minstrel Show will explore minstrelsy, one of America's original art forms in a fresh and modern way.
- nytheatre.com

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book by Jesse Cameron Alick; music And lyrics by Justin Levine

1st Produced:
the Ukrainian Center, NY    40155

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Subjective Theatre Company

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Musical

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No Poem No Song

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No Poem No Song explores the meeting place between West Indian and east Indian Religion. In No Poem No Song we follow the lives of two sons - Mike (a 21st century West Indian reincarnation of the ancient east Indian poet Vyasa) and his patron, the Hindu god Ganesh. When Mike's mother dies, Mike and his sister amy leave Brooklyn to repatriate her body on her native island of Grenada. But their journey is haunted by Spirits and Gods that are determined to prevent them from returning to Brooklyn, least they unwittingly destroy the world of the spirits, trap the world of the gods, and worst of all, free the world of the humans. . .
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Kraine theater
85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    31 May 2011

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Subjective Theatre Company

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Party Discipline

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written by Zachary Mannheimer, Jesse Alick, Andy Waldschmidt, Darius Stone, Zack Griffiths, elisa Malona, And Jeffrey Whitted

1st Produced:
Ohio Theater, NY    2006

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Subjective Theatre Company

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Scorpion And the Fox, The

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This is A program of six new short plays by African American writers, presented As part of the Fire This Time Festival. the plays Are: the Scorpion And the Fox by Jesse Cameron Alick, the Big Crunch or. . .(the eternal return) by Christine Jean Chambers, exodus by Camille Darby, the Bitter Seraph of Sugar Hill by Marcus Gardley, Breakfast by Yusef Miller, And Third Grade by Dominique Morisseau.

1st Produced:
the Red Room
85 East 4th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10003    20 Jan 2011

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Ten Min

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Sleep Awake

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thus have I heard: tales of the last bodhisattva

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1st Produced:
Fire This Time Festival, New York    2012

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Turncoats

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part of their young artist exchange program

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workshopped at the Old Vic, London    -

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When Half the Sphere Is Visible

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Can there be a perfect kiss? Will a wall of water burst a burden of guilt? Can a belt buckle baffle the TSa? an escapade forking in unexpected places, this genre-bending blend of storytelling explores the dichotomies we live with (and often choose to ignore). a collaborative effort between four playwrights, five directors and nine actors, when half the sphere is visible creates a greater narrative from four interwoven stories.
- nytheatre.com

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written by Jesse Cameron Alick, Matthew Gutschick, Michael McGuire, Germono Toussaint

1st Produced:
the Red Room
85 East 4th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10003    10 May 2012

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the Drafts

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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Genre:
piece

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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